Use of sewage treatment works as foraging sites by insectivorous bats

Animal Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-268

  Park, Kirsty J ^a   Cristinacce, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Conservation; Diptera; Percolating filter; Pipistrellus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; BIOMASS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INSECTIVORE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PIPISTRELLUS;

EID: 33746287575     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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